and vernon allen from the allen group. a round of applause for the vips, think you for being here. >> everyone is very excited with this work now proceeding. this has moved along at a very quick place. it is a unique partnership between the faa and the airport. for the first time, an airport will be leaving the building of the tower and will be following the direction of the faa and their detailed guidelines for our construction. we are using a design build approach to get six-eight months of the normal cycle and we will be using a formal part during model that we found very helpful and very successful. we are excited that the control tower project will be fully integrated into the terminal complex in both the design and the construction. the tower will fit seamlessly into our recently renovated terminal to, and are soon to be renovated terminal one. the construction job will bring hundreds of jobs for construction workers, engineers, architects as well. we are excited about the job creation aspect as well. we are excited

. >> george allen spent some time meeting with the mount vernon lee chamber of commerce. tim kaine visited some small shops in the mount vernon area. >>> today redskins fans heard what might be the most eight exciting words of the summer, robert griffin, iii has signed his contract agreeing to a four- year $21 million deal earlier today. the media did not talk to my players or management, but rg3 sent out a tweet this morning saying well, people, it's time to go to work, off the unemployment line and oh, yeah, httr. that means hail to the redskins for the uninitiated among you. topper is not one of those people. >> no. some good news. the watch has been trimmed a little bit, so the severe thunderstorm watch covers the southern 1/2 of the metro area until 9:00. there's one warning in rockingham county till 8:00, some good news, but still the chance of thunderstorms tomorrow and again on friday. let's start with live doppler 9000 and we'll show you where all the thunderstorms are. first we'll go down to our friends in southern maryland. pretty good thunderstorms rolled thro